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Date:      Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:18:43 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>
To:        hiren panchasara <hiren@strugglingcoder.info>, Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r287344 - head/sys/vm
Message-ID:  <55E5CFE3.2020801@rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20150901063616.GA68814@strugglingcoder.info>
References:  <201509010621.t816LCZ4034925@repo.freebsd.org> <20150901063616.GA68814@strugglingcoder.info>

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On 09/01/2015 01:36, hiren panchasara wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> On 09/01/15 at 06:21P, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Author: alc
>> Date: Tue Sep  1 06:21:12 2015
>> New Revision: 287344
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/287344
>>
>> Log:
>>   Handle held pages earlier in the inactive queue scan.
>>
> Is this fixing a bug or is it just an enhancement? Can you share more
> details on what prompted this commit?

The latter.  The objective is to avoid spending additional time, i.e.,
cycles, on pages that will not move from their current position in the
inactive queue.

Alan




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